The line WANT_AUTOCONF="lastest" should be fixed to say WANT_AUTOCONF="latest" in dev-db/postgis/postgis-1.2.0.ebuild . The current setting prevents the package from being emerged. This is why I have set the severity of this bug to “blocker”, according to the Gentoo bug reporting guide at <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bugzilla-howto.xml>. Thanks.
Block tracker bug 192923.
I just went ahead and fixed that typo. I actually removed the whole statement as His Vapierness said somewhere we shouldn't even set the default value. I suppose (and hope) pysql people don't mind. Denis.